ArticleJournal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences2023
Public Health Dentistry as a Career Choice - Attitude of Dental Undergraduate Students in Puducherry.
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- Attitudes of dental students in governmental versus private universities in Egypt towards acquiring a career in dental public health: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Addressing health workforce shortages: analysing dental students' career choices and barriers to public health dentistry in Pakistan.Human resources for health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Background: To pursue further education in a particular specialty of dentistry, it is important for dental students to be aware of the "expectation" associated with any specific specialty in dentistry. Therefore students 'attitudes' towards 'expectations' of various specialties, to a large extent enables a meaningful understanding that facilitates appropriate planning in the dental sector for the community. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire based survey was conducted, which included, final year and dental interns studying in two dental institutions, in the State of Puducherry. It consisted of 27 questions that were graded using 5-point Likert scale. The responses for the attitude questions toward selecting Public Health Dentistry for post-graduation were categorized into three factors, negative attitude (includes score 0-21), neutral attitude (score 22-44), and positive attitude (score 45-64). Differences between groups were examined using t-test for proportions. The level of statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. Results: Among 221 respondents, 73 (33.0) were males and 148 (67.0) females. About (52.2%) of the respondents had positive attitude toward selecting Public Health Dentistry as their future career and (76.7%) had neutral attitude, around (5 %) had negative attitude towards the speciality for pursuing post-graduation in both the two institutions. Conclusion: Our study could highlight many factors namely gender, year of study etc which influence the attitude of students for selecting PHD as career choice. These specific factors could be kept in mind while course planning for government or private institutions so that maximum interest can be fetched among students.
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